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Prior to creating An Arm and a Leg, Dan was a staff reporter for Marketplace and Chicago’s WBEZ. His reporting has appeared on outlets like 99 Percent Invisible, Planet Money, Reveal, Code Switch, and NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Before working in audio, he spent many years as a print reporter, frequently musing, “Audio seems like where the real fun is. How do I break into that?” His work reflects sophisticated reporting, an engaging narrative voice, and a knack for snappy, accurate breakdowns of complex subjects, from the economics of America’s largest crop to the engineering miracles that turned the Chicago River into a sewer. Dan lives in the beautiful village of Skokie, Illinois, with his beautiful family.
Ellen Weiss is an award-winning journalist and leader with more than 40 years experience working in audio, video and digital newsrooms. Most recently, as Washington Bureau Chief and Vice President of The E. W. Scripps Company, she created a multimedia national investigative team and launched podcasting for the company. While there, she received her forth Peabody Award for the “Under the Radar” investigative series and the RFK’s Journalism Grand Prize for the investigative documentary “A Broken Trust,” a project highlighting the lack of justice for survivors of sexual assault on tribal lands.
Prior to that she spent nearly 30 years at NPR and served as Senior Vice President of News. In that role, she oversaw global expansion of NPR News, the creation of award-winning programs an investigative unit, podcasts and the digital integration of the newsroom
Weiss is a graduate of Smith College with a B.A. in international relations. She and her family live in Washington, D.C.
Lynne joined our team in September 2024. In 2023 she set up her own nonprofit consulting business after 20 years working in Chicago’s nonprofit community. Lynne most recently served as an executive director for an organization that coordinates clinical training in reproductive healthcare. Over the years she also managed domestic violence and sexual assault programs and worked in philanthropy at Chicago Foundation for Women.
Lynne misses her garden during the winter but uses all that indoor time watching women’s tennis, cooking and reading. She lives with her wonderful husband Charley and 13-year-old dog Toby. She is proudly admiring her son thrive as a sophomore at Lake Forest College.
Emily is a journalist, writer, and audio producer based in New York City. In addition to her work at An Arm and a Leg, she produces the FRONTLINE Dispatch, a podcast from PBS/WGBH’s award-winning, long-running documentary program FRONTLINE. In 2020, she graduated from Columbia Journalism School where she focused on health care reporting and radio and podcast production. Before turning to journalism, Emily wrote and edited web and social media content for Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She also writes an independent newsletter about insulin.
Claire Davenport is a producer for An Arm and a Leg, leading a crowdsourced journalism project and writing the First Aid Kit newsletter.
Claire is a recent graduate of Columbia’s Journalism School, and during her coverage of protests on campus in 2024, she appeared on the BBC, NPR, and Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story.” Her other freelance work on local issues covers topics ranging from union rallies to air quality on the New York City subway.
Claire is based in New York City, and she’s also a frequent contributor to the news site West Side Rag. She’s a lover of all-night dining, puns, and Oxford commas.
Bea most recently worked as Director of Special Projects and Initiatives at Chicago Public Media/WBEZ, as Consulting Producer for the podcast This Is My Family, and as a producer on Amber Hawk Swanson’s The Harmony Show, and consulted for the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
She was previously the Program Director and Theatre Faculty at the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Chicago Arts Program, and Associate Director of Education at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. She has directed numerous plays at Chicago’s off-loop theatres.
Adam is an audio engineer, composer, sound designer, based in upstate New York. He’s worked with outlets like The Ringer, Audible, Uncover Studios, VICE, and Breadcrumbs.
Adam is the CEO of Rogue Dialogue Productions which is currently producing its first podcast Windfall which is like a big budget Sci-Fi HBO show, but for your ears. He also produces music under the name Garbage Person. RIYL: The Dear Hunter / Sigur Ros / Kimbra / Sufjan Stevens. Find out more at www.adamraymonda.com
Composer and Multi-instrumentalist David Winer has been writing and playing music for most of his life. His agility with countless musical styles has won him 2 AICP awards, 3 Clios, 1 Addy. He has been shortlisted at Cannes and nominated for 4 Grammys as a musician and producer. David is Creative Director at Fancy Mountain Music and Sound, and leads the Chicago band Ponds & Fleshman, whose music is dope as hell.
David lives with his wife and two children in Evanston, Illinois. His marinated jerk chicken is delicious!
Sean is an illustrator and writer living in Chicago. His colorful, vibrant illustrations have appeared in publications from Pearson, Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, Capstone Press, and many others. He is the creator of the Rocket Robinson series of graphic novels for young readers, published by Dark Horse Comics. Sean is also known for his series of live-drawing “whiteboard” videos on language and other topics, produced by mentalfloss.com.
Sarah Ballema previously served in a variety of roles at Chicago Public Media/WBEZ, most recently as Senior Manager of Event Production & Community Engagement. Over the years she also spent time in WBEZ’s development department and as the operations manager for the newsroom.
Sarah is a theatre director who specializes in new play development. Her work has been staged at Chicago’s scrappy storefont theater Cornservatory, in new play festivals around the city and at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop.
Daisy Rosario is Slate’s senior supervising producer for audio. She was previously an executive producer at Stitcher focused on original podcasts. Prior to Stitcher, she was managing producer for podcasts at WAMU 88.5 in Washington, DC. She came to WAMU from the startup 60dB.
Before 60dB, Daisy was a producer on the first season of the podcast Sooo Many White Guys, hosted by Phoebe Robinson for WNYC Studios. She is also a former senior producer for the weekly NPR-distributed show and podcast, Latino USA.
In her spare time, Daisy is co-host and co-creator of the podcast Serially Obsessed, where she and a former prosecutor and a media critic break down each episode of the podcast Serial.
Before audio journalism, Daisy had a lot of strange, but useful jobs. Among other things, she was a comedian and live event producer who began piloting podcast ideas in 2005. She still performs monthly in CPT: Comedy People’s Time, an improv and stand-up show in New York City.
Marian is a journalist based in New York City. Nothing gets her going like stories of people being caught in the gears of complex, unwieldy systems, and she’s made a career out of telling those stories in a variety of formats. She’s currently a producer at HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where she has helped shape the show’s signature long-form segments since 2015. She was previously an investigative reporter at ProPublica.
Ann Heppermann has been working in audio for nearly 20 years. She’s reported, produced and edited for everywhere under the sun, including: This American Life, Radiolab, 99% Invisible, and many others. She has received numerous awards, including a Peabody, and in 2011 was named a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow. She has also edited a number of narrative podcasts like Heaven’s Gate, the feminist women’s history podcast No Man’s Land and an upcoming series with Complex Magazine. Bitch Magazine called her a “sort of Goddess of podcasting,” which makes her extremely proud.
Whitney is a versatile audio producer/editor/sound designer, production manager, and aspiring placemaker.
A collaborator at heart, she has worked with audio organizations such as PRX, StoryCorps, The Third Coast International Audio Festival, Heritage Radio Network, and CHIRP radio.
Whitney edits under the nickname The Darling Killer, she’s a founding member of The Recollective, a scrappy multimedia collective, and she currently runs a radio residency in Lima, Peru.
Gabrielle is an editor who works with text and audio. She’s at NPR’s Here and Now, after working as digital editor for New Hampshire Public Radio and the NPR show 1A. She’s based in Brooklyn, New York.
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